Thank you very much Lake for noticing the thread and chiming in. I defer to you now since you have the extensive photo stock, the knowledge and great commentary!
It really is truly incredible what the city once was, and its history and former prominence in America (compared to nowadays when most probably do not know where the city actually is, but they know it has a large Baptist church and the military).
Part of the point of this thread for me (and it got buried, truly) was to showcase some buildings still standing and hope that anyone reading this would see potential and have some sort of way to get down to the city and meet with some folks to see if a real estate play could be made. I do have so much hope that companies like the one I work for will eventually take a risk and open an extremely opportunistic fund for acquisitions of total value-add and opportunistic real estate such as basically anything in Jacksonville (including "class A").